To:THE COMMISSARIAT FOR FOOD AND THE FOOD DEPARTMENT OF THE SUPREME ECONOMIC COUNCIL[1]

Written:Written on January 13 (26), 1918Published:First published in 1931 inLenin Miscellany XVIII.

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      Moscow,Volume 44,

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13. I. 1918

Thebearers, Comrades Suvorov and Antropov, are
delegates of the Regional Committee of the Urals Soviets.It is necessary to authorise them to adopt the most
revolutionary measures to ensure the movement to Petrograd
of railway trucks with grain from Siberia.

[1]Thisdocument and the note to the secretary which follows it
were written by Lenin in connection with a memorandum
received from the Food and Economic Committee of the Territorial
Soviet of Western Siberia and the Urals, which reported that the
Omsk railway was sabotaging the dispatch of food consignments
to the west, as a result of which over a thousand loaded trucks
remained stationary. The committee requested the appointment
of an emergency commission of investigation. This memorandum
was delivered by delegates from Urals factories, who had arrived
with a train-load of grain.